The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration
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The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration
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The two quatrains of this poem rhyme ABCB. The ominous rhythm of these short, two-beat lines contributes to the poem’s sense of foreboding or dread and complements the unflinching directness with which the speaker tells the rose she is dying. Analysis Left: A man with a large pendant hip tumour. Right: A man with a large pendant face tumour. Lam Qua William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake's work is today considered seminal and significant in the history of both poetry and the visual arts. First of all, there is the origin of the corpses to dissect and portray. At first, they came from the gallows. Starting in 1752, the sentence for murder in English courts included indeed public dissection. Body snatchers would supply corpses of pregnant women and foetus and any extra cadaver if needed. The 1832 Anatomy Act, however, abolished the dissection of executed criminals but allowed anatomy schools to use the body of anyone who had died unclaimed in hospitals. Which means that it was no longer crime that lead you to the dissection table, it was poverty.
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Blake's prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the language". His visual artistry has led one modern critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced." Although he only once travelled any further than a day's walk outside London over the course of his life, his creative vision engendered a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced 'imagination' as "the body of God", or "Human existence itself".The writing is informative and impeccably researched, delving into the gruesome history of anatomical study in a professional manner that walks the tightrope between sensationalistic indulgence of morbid fascination on the one side, and overly clinical jargon designed to emotionally distance the reader on the other.
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The illustrations are beautifully reproduced. Unfortunately, the text is, more often than not, dry and academic, and almost entirely focused on snippets of medical practices rather than the illustrators and illustrations. It's great to see beautiful samples of Kanda Gensen's textured paper prints and Lam Qua's paintings, but Gensen and Qua are only briefly mentioned in captions. I'm certainly more interested in Gensen's techniques, than in (say) the well-known historical use of mercury to treat venereal diseases. It's also laborious to match the illustrations with the sources. The worm has found out the bed of the rose. It is the place of crimson, warm joy. Crimson joy may denote physical, earthly pleasure which provides warmth but ultimately brings spiritual destruction and death. Everything rendered here from cholera—depicted in eerie teals—to gout—with massive orblike tumors throbbing beneath the skin—is as aesthetically arresting as it is off-putting. If you’re the kind of person who guiltily sneaks off to watch a zit popping or a deworming video on YouTube, wondering what’s wrong with you, this is the book for you.The libidinal characters in the juvenile mind are regularly deterred and censored due to social exclusion and fallacy. The worm, to go with this scheme, is appropriately portrayed as ‘invisible’ and it ‘flies in the night’. The worm is animate and dynamic at night: and this allusion to night hints at the confidentiality of the thing as well as its catastrophic brunt. William Blake was the foremost poet of the group called the ‘Precursors of Romanticism. From boyhood days he had the visions. So his poetry glows with spiritual intensity and is simple and sublime. As he was a professionally trained engraver, he published his own poems using process called ‘illuminated printing’. So to understand his poems in a much better way, the painting and engraving with the original poem help a lot. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience The Worm- The image of the worm echoes the biblical serpent. Worms are inclined to earthbound, so they symbolize death, decay and destruction. The Rose – Allegorically the rose is a conventional symbol of love. It also symbolizes beauty, innocence and purity. The worm is described as invisible. Probably as it flies in night, in darkness, the small worm remains invisible. It can also fly in the midst of great stormy night. The description of the worm and its journey in the night denotes evil, deceit hypocrisy and pain.
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